Bill For the Planning a Financing of Mag/Lev Reaserch

[Filuwaúrdjan]

This bill is good for my district and could be a major leap forward for public transport.
I support it fully.

[King]

I've done a little research and have found the $100 million dollars over the next 20 years could only pay for a 3 mile MagLev track. To pay for the entire promised line, it would cost us....$893.1 billion dollars and that is just construction.

To pay for this, we have to:
1) Raise taxes on all income brackets by 4%
2) Cut spending on social programs by 20%
3) Cut military spending by 10%

[Jake]

I've done a little research and have found the $100 million dollars over the next 20 years could only pay for a 3 mile MagLev track. To pay for the entire promised line, it would cost us....$893.1 billion dollars and that is just construction.

To pay for this, we have to:
1) Raise taxes on all income brackets by 4%
2) Cut spending on social programs by 20%
3) Cut military spending by 10%

This only pays for research on Mag Lev.
Check out Clause 4 of the last version.

[King]

I've done a little research and have found the $100 million dollars over the next 20 years could only pay for a 3 mile MagLev track. To pay for the entire promised line, it would cost us....$893.1 billion dollars and that is just construction.

To pay for this, we have to:
1) Raise taxes on all income brackets by 4%
2) Cut spending on social programs by 20%
3) Cut military spending by 10%

This only pays for research on Mag Lev.
Check out Clause 4 of the last version.

I see, but still. NO corporation would take a $1 trillion risk like that and NO financial institution would help pay for it.

[12th Doctor]

I've done a little research and have found the $100 million dollars over the next 20 years could only pay for a 3 mile MagLev track. To pay for the entire promised line, it would cost us....$893.1 billion dollars and that is just construction.

To pay for this, we have to:
1) Raise taxes on all income brackets by 4%
2) Cut spending on social programs by 20%
3) Cut military spending by 10%

This only pays for research on Mag Lev.
Check out Clause 4 of the last version.

I see, but still. NO corporation would take a $1 trillion risk like that and NO financial institution would help pay for it.

You are not looking at the long term, though.  Just because something seems inpratical now doesn't mean that it will be impractical in 20-30 years.  That's why we need research.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

You are not looking at the long term, though.  Just because something seems inpratical now doesn't mean that it will be impractical in 20-30 years.  That's why we need research.

Well said :-)

One of the big problems with transportation policies pretty much everywhere is the tendency to only look at the short term... despite the fact that it'll take about 10 years for a relatively modest plan to be fully operational.
This is why public transport is a mess in most countries.

[??????????]

I don't support this. Seems to be to big a waste of taxpayer money. See Amtrak.

[12th Doctor]

I don't support this. Seems to be to big a waste of taxpayer money. See Amtrak.

If you read through the deliberations, we are doing everything we can to make this un-like Amtrak.  First-off, these trains cannot crash, it is a near impossibility.  Second, these trains a twice as fast as Amtrak trains, thus they would be seen as far more favorable for medium rage trips.

[Siege40]

After the research, perhaps a small line, Philadelphia-New York, or Philadelphia-Washington, should experimentally be opened, we have so see how well recieved this is and how pratical it is.

Siege

[King]

It's been about a week since the bill's intro, debate has stopped, and it looks like the bill is ready to be voted on. Phil, will ye do the honors?

[Keystone Phil]

Voting will now open. All those in favor, please vote Yea, all those opposed, please vote Nay.

[Gabu]

Yea.

[ilikeverin]

Are you voting on the initial bill?

[Gabu]

Are you voting on the initial bill?

No, I thought we were voting on the latest version of the bill.

If I'm wrong, someone correct me.

[Jake]

The senators are voting on this bill.  The final form AFAIK

Magnetic Levitation (Mag/Lev) Research Bill

Atlasia recognizes the potential of Magnetic Levitation technology if applied to transportation.  Already, competitors overseas have developed high speed transportation utilizing this technology.  Atlasia can not afford to fall behind in this rapidly expanding industry. Because of this, the following steps will be taken.

1) Atlasia shall invest in funding for research for Mag-Lev trains of $100 million over the next 20 years.

2) Atlasia will then work with private corporations and contractors to construct regional Mag/Lev transportation lines in the following regions.

   a) A line will be constructed extending from Boston-New York City-Philadelphia-Baltimore-Nyman-Raleigh-Atlanta

   b) A line will be constucted extending from Buffalo-Erie-Cleveland-Toledo-Chicago-Milwaukee-Minneapolis , with spurs extending south

from Cleveland-Columbus-Cincinatti, Erie-Pittsburgh and from Toledo-Detroit.

   c) A line will be constructed extending from Seattle-Portland-San Francisco-Sacramento-Los Angeles-San Diego-Phoenix, with spurs extending from Phoenix-Grand Canyon-Las Vegas and from San Francisco-Reno/Lake Tahoe.

   d) A line will be constructed extending from New York City-Nyman-Orlando which will be used as an express, direct route to Central Florida. The use of automobile transporting train cars will be encouraged.

                e) A line will be constructed in Texas.  All lines will intersect in Austin, from which point there will be one line to Dallas, one line to Houston and one line to San Antonio.

3) Clause 2 shall be implemented by 2030.

4) No monies shall be appropiated from the Treasury of Atlasia for the purpose of constructing these lines.

[ilikeverin]

Oh.  That one.

[12th Doctor]

Yea

[King]

Map of that line:



For some reason, there is a SF-Sacramento and a SF-Reno line that overlap, instead of a SF-Sacramento-Reno line.

[Nym90]

Yea.

[??????????]

Hey! We don't need a train that shuffles yankees down here to Florida even faster then before! LOL j/k



I vote Yea

[WMS]

Yea.

I appreciate Hugh's attempt to get a line to Albuquerque, but now is not the time for that.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Aye

[Bono]

Nay.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Yea.

I appreciate Hugh's attempt to get a line to Albuquerque, but now is not the time for that.

But how else can you make the left turn at Albuquerque?

[King]

5-1, looks set to pass.